Wainuia
Wainuia is a genus of air-breathing predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.
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| Genus: | Wainuia Powell, 1930 |
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Description
The width of the shell of Wainuia is 21–38 mm.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Wainuia include:[1]
- Wainuia clarki (Powell, 1936), North Island
- Wainuia edwardi (Suter, 1899), South Island
- Wainuia fallai (Powell, 1946), South Island
- Wainuia urnula
- Wainuia urnula urnula (Pfeiffer, 1855), North Island
- Wainuia urnula nasuta (Powell, 1946), D'Urville Island
- Wainuia sp. not yet described, Fiordland, South Island
Ecology
Species of the genus Wainuia are carnivorous.
Wainuia have eggs with a calcareous surface which lacks cuticle.[3]
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Efford M., Howitt R. & Gleeson D. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of Wainuia (Mollusca: Pulmonata)—biogeography and conservation implications. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2002, 445–456.
- O'Connor A. C. (June) 1945. Notes on the Eggs of New Zealand Paryphantidae, With Description of a New Subgenus. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 5, 1945-46, pages 54-57.
Further reading
- Efford M. G. 1998 Distribution and status of native carnivorous land snails in the genera Wainuia and Rhytida. Science for Conservation 101: 1–47.
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